Scientists have named a new version of the death of the oldest European

Scientists describe a new possible cause of the death of ECR - a man who lived in the Alps five thousand years ago. The mummy was discovered in the ECR Glacier in 1991.
The analysis showed that the cut under his right eye, probably led to severe bleeding. To cope with such an injury the body was very difficult - especially in cold weather and in the highlands, according to compulenta. ru.
The mummy of a 45- year-old man ( height - 165 cm, weight - 50 kg) for twenty years, measured as soon as possible, photographed a thousand times, prosvechena X-rays and a computer scanner, as well as comprehensively discussed. Ten years ago the body was discovered flint. He was stuck in the left shoulder, having made a hole in a 2 cm wide. The researchers concluded that the boom damaged subclavian artery and killed a few minutes ECR. It would seem that nothing new to say about the mummy is no longer.
However, Wolfgang Rehays University of Innsbruck (Austria) and his colleagues take a closer ( CT ) examined the mummy 's right eye (before it was discovered a crack in the skull ). This allowed us to see a deep cut.
Scans revealed crystals of iron around the right eye and forehead ( they produce a bluish tint ). Since the local rocks are poor in iron, experts have suggested that the crystals are a sign of hematoma. For further research is required biopsy.
Rehays also challenges the view of colleagues that the boom has touched an important artery. The head of this conclusion, Albert Zink from the Institute of mummies and the Iceman (Italy) hit a new point of view. He noted that at the September conference a council discussed the cause of death ECR and confirmed the hypothesis that the fatal arrow.
According to him, at the time of death, the wound was very fresh. In addition, from a similar injury to the person dies within 10-15 minutes ( if you can not spend the proper operation). Zinc is believed that the most likely ECR injured eye has once fell, struck by an arrow.
Both scholars, however, agree that a recent opinion on the death of ECR as a result of an unsuccessful attempt to climb over rocks untenable. The man had a beautiful muscles and was found in a relatively safe place.
ECR ( there are also variant spellings and Ettsi Oetzi ) - ice man mummy, discovered in 1991 in the Tyrolean Alps on a glacier in the valley of Ötztal Similaun at an altitude of 3200 meters. Age mummy, defined by the radiocarbon method is about 5300 years. In Austria, at the place of finding a mummy called the ECR, and in Italy known as the mummy of a man and Similaunsky Tyrolean Iceman. Is the oldest human mummy, discovered in Europe.